Mix boiling water and dates.  Cool stir into batter.

9″ loaves 55-65 minutes

8″ loaves 55-60 minutes

Cool slightly and remove from pan.

Grease bottom of pan only.  Bake at 350.

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I am not a fan of fruit or nut breads.  My poor husband had only had bananna bread once in the whole time we were married, and he had to make it all by himself.

You probably have a ten year old bottle of cooking sherry sitting around your kitchen.  Unless you already drank it.

Melt butter in pan.

Chop up one onion, one green pepper and a stalk of celery.  Add as many hot dogs as you would like.  Fry until brown.  Add one chopped tomato or one can of diced tomato and 1/4 cup of the sherry.  Add a dash of Lawry’s seasoning salt, or some salt and pepper if you don’t have it.    Simmer for about 15 minutes.  Serve with egg noodles.  Yummers.

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• 1/4 c. sliced onion
• 2 T. shortening
• 2 T. flour
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/8 tsp. pepper
• 1 can (16 oz) tomatoes
• 1/2 lb. bologna (can also use Spam if you aren’t involved in the stock market in any way…or honest to goodness ham if you don’t own a home and still have a job!)
• 3/4 c. cooked diced carrots
• 3/4 c. cooked cut green beans
• Bologna Biscuit dough (recipe below)

Heat oven to 425.  In large skillet, cook and stir onion in shortening until tender.  Remove from heat.  Stir in flour, salt and pepper.  Cook over low heat, stirring until mixture is bubbly.  Remove from heat; stir in tomatoes.  Heat to boiling, stirring constantly.  Boil and stir one minute.  Stir in bologna, carrots and beans.  Heat to boiling.

Pour into ungreased baking pan, 8x8x2 inches; place in oven.  Prepare bologna biscuit dough; drop 8 or 9 tablespoonfuls on hot vegetable mixture.  Bake uncovered 25 to 30 minutes or until biscuits are golden brown.  Season with your own tears.  Serves 5.

Bologna Biscuit Dough

• 1 cup all purpose flour (the recipe calls for Gold Medal flour, but you can’t afford that if you are making this.)
• 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 2 T. shortening
• 1/4 lb. bologna, cut into 1/4 inch cubes
• 1/4 c. milk

Measure dry ingredients into bowl.  Cut in shortening until mixture looks like meal.  Stir in bologna and milk.

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Cook slow

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No it is not really a recipe, it is an adventure!

1 large box Premium soda crackers

Soak in large pan of ice water for 8-10 minutes.  Have a large kitchen table covered with paper towels.  Remove each cracker with spatula and place on towels.  Then cover crackers with paper towels and pat down very gently.

Let crackers dry for 4 1/2 or less hours.  (They never really dry.)  Pick up each cracker carefully with hands and place on cookie sheet that has been generously “painted” with butter and curry powder.  (Have a small bowl of this prepared before removing crackers from table.)

After crackers are placed on the cookie sheet “paint” each cracker generously with the butter and curry mix.  (Keep sauce well stirred as you use it.)

Have oven very hot at first (500 degree), after crackers have been in about 10 minutes, reduce heat to 350.  If crackers are not browning and crisping enough at this heat, turn up to 400.

Putting crackers in oven while damp keeps them swollen as they should be.

–Mrs. F.J Robinson  Christ Church Cookbook Savannah, Georgia

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Pour into buttered mold and cover.  Steam 3 hours.  Raisins may be added.

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hmm.  “Hunter’s Pudding”.  Like Gentleman’s Relish but less sticky.

• 1 lb sliced bacon
• 14 eggs
• 1 1/2 c. cottage cheese
• 1 can crushed pineapple, drained
• 1 tsp vanilla
• chopped fresh parsley, optional

Cook bacon until crisp. Drain and discard all but 2 T. drippings. Crumble in large bowl, beat eggs lightly, add bacon, drippings, cottage cheese, pineapple and vanilla. Pour into greased 11x7x2 baking dish. Bake uncovered at 350 until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Let stand 5 minutes before serving. Garnish with parsley.

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What the hell???? Bacon and eggs…yum. COTTAGE CHEESE AND PINEAPPLE????? Unholy breakfast dish. Sunshine eggs? I cannot believe this recipe exists. That’s it, this one broke me. I am stepping away from the recipe box for a while and going and making rugelach cookies. ugh. so gross.

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• Soak one box Jell-O (lemon) in water.
• Cook enough rice for 2 cups cold rice.
• After Jell-O is cool, whip and add medium sized can crushed pineapple (with juice), cold rice, and one cup whipped cream.  Add 1/2 c. sugar, or as sweet as you like.  Serves eight to ten.

–From Mrs. Wendell Brown

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Clown Salad.  Shudder.  This recipe reeks of the 60′s.

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• celery
• onion

cook in 1/4 c. oleo

• 2 T. flour
• 3 c. milk
• tsp salt
• pepper

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Wow. this sounds pretty gross. Milk soup. mmm.

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Cook fish in boiling water and half of salt for 3 mins.  Drain.  Grind with onion.  Melt fat, add flour.  Mix until smooth paste, add milk and cook slowly 3 mins.  Add fish and seasonings and bring to a boil.  Remove from heat and add one egg at a time stirring vigorously.  Sprinkle corn flakes over the top.  Put in casserole and bake in hot oven.  30 mins.

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True story.  On the day that I bought this recipe box my husband and I were driving all over Maine going to different antique stores and yard sales.  After I bought this my husband read me recipe names as I drove to the next stop.  When he came to “Fish Pudding”, I made him repeat it quite a few times.  Fish Pudding.  Let that sink into your brain for a minute.

My husband, being from Cape Cod, swears that this is a well-known New England recipe that many a Grandmother has made.  (not his for the record.)

I think it sounds like a code for a yeast infection.